Thank you very much for these images! But it seems to me that these thangka images are very different from what the prayer describes. For instance, in the case of Dzam Ling Gyen Chok, the prayer states: <snip> And here, this is not quite the case. So the thangka or the prayer? Not that thangkas are...

Thank you very much for these images! But it seems to me that these thangka images are very different from what the prayer describes. For instance, in the case of Dzam Ling Gyen Chok, the prayer states: <snip> And here, this is not quite the case. So the thangka or the prayer? Not that thangkas are...

https://busbebis.tigersmith.net/DzamLingGyenChok.png /magnus The image didn't display for me. Looking into why, I get a browser security issue with the site the image is on. For others who may also have display problems with the image: DzamLingGyenChok.png Sorry about that, this should work better....

Does anyone know of a thangka corresponding with the visualization of the 8 forms of Padmasambhava described in this text: http://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/barche-lamsel And which is which? Thanks! The prayer correspond with Mandala of Tukdrub Barche Kunsel: http:/...

maybe it is this one :shrug: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fc1.staticflickr.com%2F6%2F5517%2F9183667160_5ae9314c77_b.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Flaoniem%2F9183667160&docid=ji_98aVBJ_PwbM&tbnid=AaG1jqh_J-46vM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwidlb-gx5PbAhWlFZoKHV_nBpAQMwg6...

Does anyone know of a thangka corresponding with the visualization of the 8 forms of Padmasambhava described in this text: http://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/chokgyur-dechen-lingpa/barche-lamsel And which is which? Thanks! The prayer correspond with Mandala of Tukdrub Barche Kunsel: http:/...

Read any book on the 84 mahasiddhas. A few of them where not Buddhists but attained the same level of realisation. /magnus I don't recall any of their stories saying that they attained the Bhumis like the Buddhist ones did. Can you give me a source? Any book, if you are a siddha you have attained r...

And a few ones of them - according to Buddhist sources - were actually non-Buddhists. AFAIK the non-Buddhist ones are not described as having actually attained Mahasiddhi. Read any book on the 84 mahasiddhas. A few of them where not Buddhists but attained the same level of realisation. /magnus

I have read about that but I was wondering about this time specifically. It is always a donwang if it is on webcast, in my experience at least. /magnus It was not webcasted. I think it was not a tonwang but I am not sure. If Rinpoche used things like a bumpa it was probably the full extended empowe...

Does someone know if the Mandarava initiation that ChNNR gave in the last Mandarava drubchen was a tonwang? Or, if not, what was it? He normally gives a donwang, a "meaning empowerment" as in the real meaning is transmitted in a concise way. /magnus I have read about that but I was wondering about ...

What precisely is being referred to when an initiation is listed as a "ripening" empowerment? Would this be rendered back into Sanskrit properly as vipāka abhiśeka ? The term in Tibetan seems to be smin byed kyi dbang (see attachment ;) ). By that definition, aren't all initiations considered ripen...